This is good news. The CHFT would provide a much needed way to efficiently move freight east of the Hudson River. Currently, rail freight has to go hundreds of miles out of the way (north, and back south) or be barged across the harbor, which is inefficient. The unfortunate result for us is excessive truck traffic on our roads and bridges, which severely damages our infrastructure, creates traffic jams, and leads to health problems due to exhaust levels.

This is a plan whose time has come. The tunnel would run from an existing rail yard in Jersey City to an existying rail yard in Sunset Park.

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The Selkirk Hurdle is the reason that there is so much truck traffic clogging our city. A freight train in New Jersey (or anywhere else in the continental U.S. south of west of NJ) has to travel 280 miles out of its way to get to NYC, Long Island or Southern New England. This project MUST go forward.